Refrigerator-wagon body.



O. M. SMITH.

REFRIGERATOR WAGON BODY.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 6, 1909.

Patented om t-1s, 1910.

b ea h CURTIS M. SMITH, OF WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, ASS IGNOR TO AMERICAN UNI-TED STA ES PAEJENT OFFICE. 1

SECURITIES COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF WEST VIRGINIA.

REFRIGERATOPU'WAGON BODY.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 18, 1910.

Application filed November 6, 1909. Serial No. 526,645.

In the accompanying drawing :-Figure' 1 is a plan View of a wagon embodying my in'iprovenients shown partly in section, Fig. 2 .isan elevation with part of the side wall broken away; and Fig. 3 is a detail .view in vertical section. t

The wagon shown may be of any'ordinary construction as to its size, shape-and ruin 11in gear. As shown, the dragon body is divided into a series of compartments by .partitions a; the side walls are shown at I), and the end wall'at 0. A runn ing board is shown at (Z. A cover for the wagon body is composed of a series of boards readily removable, as shown at 0. Each i'ei'noi'able board 6 serves as a cover for a compartment The side and end walls, as well as the bottom or" the wagon, are double, with air spaces between, as shown at 9. At the sideof each compartment I place a metallic can, as shown in Flgs. 1 and 3, at /L, the exact width of the compartment, andthis 1s adapted to be tilled with waste or crushed ice and salt, forming a cooling medium. In the s ace between the two ice containin cans f I place the receptacles containing the material to betra-nsported, such as milk, ice cream and the like, though I intend to use the wagon for the special purpose of transporting-ice in sealed cans, and I aim to make the wagon of such size as to hold in each of the compartments f fiye' of'these cans from side to side, and four cans deep.

,These cans, of course, may, as Iv have stated,

contain either ice for domestic use and adapted to be" placed directly into-the refrigerator, or' the receptacles may contain any other product of a perishable nature which itfis desired to transport in cold storage. The cans containing the refrigerating material are readily removable and replaceable for the purpose of emptying them when this is required, and new ice and'salt added.

l claini'as my 1nvent1onz- In wagon body having a series ofcom partments adapted to receive portable cans containingperishable material and a series. of receptacles adapted to contain refrigeratv ing mate ial located around the walls of the wagon and independentlyremovable, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof, I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

Witnesses H. M. BARRETT, EDWARD N. SARTON.

CURTIS M. SMITH. 

